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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Geographic Information > Western > Washington > Olympia

Olympia

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Western Consumer Price Index Card Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Sep 2014
Western - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Mar 2023
Consumer Price Index Overview Table – West Consumer price indexes Table Mar 2023
Occupational Employment and Wages in Olympia-Tumwater — May 2021 Employment, Pay News Release Jul 2022
Unemployment in the Seattle Area by County - June 2016 Unemployment News Release Aug 2016
Average Energy Prices, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue – December 2022 Average energy prices News Release Jan 2023
Consumer Price Index, Seattle area — December 2022 Consumer price indexes News Release Jan 2023
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2019
CPI Historical Table - Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (old base) (PDF) Consumer price indexes Table Jul 2019
CPI Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average - January 2023 (PDF) Consumer price indexes CPI Summary Feb 2023
2018 CPI Geographic Revision Fact Sheet Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2018
Consumer Price Index Data Tables - Pacific Cities and U.S. City Average Consumer price indexes Factsheet Mar 2020
Olympia-Tumwater, WA Economy at a Glance:
Olympia-Tumwater, WA
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Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

 144.5 147.0 147.7 (p)148.0 (p)152.8  

Employment(1)

 139.1 141.2 140.9 (p)141.1 (p)144.9  

Unemployment(1)

 5.4 5.8 6.8 (p)6.9 (p)8.0  

Unemployment Rate(2)

 3.8 4.0 4.6 (p)4.7 (p)5.2  

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

 127.6 128.6 129.7 130.0 (p)128.9  

12-month % change

 4.8 4.6 4.9 4.9 (p)5.1  

Mining, Logging, and Construction(3)

 7.6 7.5 7.4 7.2 (p)7.0  

12-month % change

 5.6 4.2 5.7 2.9 (p)4.5  

Manufacturing(3)

 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 (p)3.4  

12-month % change

 9.4 6.3 3.0 3.0 (p)3.0  

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

 20.6 20.7 21.0 21.1 (p)20.7  

12-month % change

 2.0 0.5 0.0 3.9 (p)4.0  

Professional and Business Services(3)

 14.8 15.1 15.2 15.5 (p)15.0  

12-month % change

 14.7 12.7 11.8 12.3 (p)7.1  

Leisure and Hospitality(3)

 11.0 10.9 10.9 11.0 (p)11.0  

12-month % change

 10.0 9.0 9.0 10.0 (p)11.1  

Government(3)

 39.9 40.8 41.4 41.5 (p)41.8  

12-month % change

 1.8 4.9 6.4 4.5 (p)4.5  

Consumer Price Index: West urban

CPI-U, All items(4)

 315.094 317.299 315.919 314.599 317.477 319.130

CPI-U, All items, 12-month % change(4)

   8.3 8.1 7.1 6.2 6.3 6.0

CPI-W, All items(5)

 307.937 310.550 308.801 306.762 309.696 311.086

CPI-W, All items, 12-month % change(5)

   8.5 8.5 7.3 6.1 6.2 5.9

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(4) All Urban Consumers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(5) Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, base: 1982-84=100, not seasonally adjusted.
(p) Preliminary